I know it's a 3.0. I was stating a comparison. I always just start at the crank pulley and install it ccw, using a wrench on the cam pulley to noodge it into sync and then tension it slightly, just hanging the back edge of the belt, waiting to sock it all the way home until the belt is started all the way around, then tapping it into full engagement. The dside pulley is stable at the timing mark, while the pside cam pulley is poised on the point of the cam lobes, metastable at best. It will tend to pop off the mark. I like to keep it more stable with a box end wrench while getting the timing belt on right. Once installed, I hand rotate the motor two full turns back to the crank mark and check the cam sprocket timing again.


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